Monday, June 25, 2012

Brave: Redefining Princess

(c) Disney Pixar

I won't be posting a new Disnerd review here until later this week, because I spent my weekend writing about the new Pixar film Brave for InterVarsity's blog!

Here's an excerpt:

"Brave certainly brings a refreshing “Pixar-ness” to the
princess genre by presenting a flawed, messy heroine, whose journey runs
entirely without a hint of romance and whose mother is neither dead nor
evil. But the film is not merely a 100-minute long two-dimensional
feminist mantra either.

Merida isn’t so much an “atypical” princess as she is a woman redefining what it means to be a true princess."

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I need to confess that the term "Disnerd" is not my own -- it was coined by the actor Zachary Levi, who voiced the character Flynn Rider in 2010's Tangled and is a self-proclaimed Disnerd. Suffice it to say, I have a bit of a celebrity crush.